Tiktok says that four British teenagers have been removed
A CEO of Tiktok told a group of parents who believe that their children died while trying to see it on the platform may have been removed.
they Tiktok prosecution and her mother company bytedance During the death of Isaac Kenfan, Archi Batbi, Julian “Gulps” Sweeny and Mia Walsh – between the ages of 12 and 14.
The lawsuit claims that the children died trying to “a challenge of blackout”, in which the person deprives themselves intentionally from oxygen.
Gayls Dyington, Director of Supreme Government Relations at Tiktok, BBC Radio 5 Live, told there “no things” we have no simply “because of” legal requirements when we remove data. “
Speaking on the safest Internet day, a global initiative to increase awareness about the online damage, Mr. Derngton said that Tijk was in contact with some parents, adding that they were “experienced by an unbearable and unbearable thing.”
in An interview on Sunday with Laura QuinsburgFamilies accused the technology company of not sympathy. “
Ellen Rom, the 14 -year -old Joll’s mother, said that she was trying to get data from Tijook that she believed could provide clarity in his death. It is a campaign for legislation to give parents access to social media accounts to their children if they died.
“We want Tiktok to be coming, to help us – why do you prevent us from data?” Lisa Kenfan, the 13 -year -old mother of Isaac, told the program. “How can they sleep at night?”
When asked about why Tiktok did not give the data requested by the parents, Mr. Derington said:
“These are really complicated things because they relate to legal requirements about them when we remove data and we have, under data protection laws, data removal requirements very quickly. This affects what we can do.
“We always want to do everything we can to give anyone answers to these types of issues, but there are some things that we do not simply have,” he added.
In response to a question about whether this means that Tiktok no longer has a record of children’s accounts or their account content, Mr. Derington said: “These are complex situations where the requirements for removing data can affect what is available.
“Everyone expects that when the law is required to delete some data, we will delete it.
“So this is a more complicated situation than just we have something that we don’t allow to reach.
“It is really important that the situation is really running, and people should get the largest number of answers available.”
The lawsuit – which is being brought on behalf of the parents in the United States by the Center for Social media victims law – claims that Tiktok broke its own rules on what can be shown on the platform.
It claims that their children died participating in a direction that was widely distributed on Tiktok in 2022, although the site has rules about not showing or reinforcing the dangerous content, which may cause great physical damage.
Although Mr. Derrington will not comment on the details of the ongoing case, he said about the parents: “I have young children myself and I can only imagine how much they want to get answers and want to understand what happened.
“We have already had talks with some of these parents to try to help them.”
He said that the so -called “blackout challenge” had already tiktok previously, adding: “We have never found any evidence that a blackout challenge was heading to the platform.
“In fact since 2020 [we] I have completely banned the ability to search for the phrase “blackout challenge” or variables from it, to try to ensure that no one is across this type of content.
“We don’t want anything like that on the platform and know that users do not want it either.”
Mr. Derngton pointed out that Tiktok has committed more than two million dollars (1.6 billion pounds) to moderate content that has been loaded on the platform this year, and has tens of thousands of human supervisors around the world.
He also said that the company launched an online safety center, which provides information about how to stay safe as a user, also said that the conversations also facilitated parents and adolescents.
Mr. Derngton continued: “This is a really tragic position, but we are trying to make sure that we are doing everything we can constantly make sure that people are safe in Tiktok.”